I took the Transgender IAT test, and my result suggested moderate automatic preference for Transgender people over Cisgender people. I was surprised by these results, not because I have anything against transgender people or I don’t see them as equals, but I don’t know any transgender people in my life and I don’t interact with any transgender people on a daily basis, so I assumed my implicit bias might leave more towards cisgendered people since that is what my brain is more accustomed to. This makes me question the reliability of the test. With the transgender and cisgender celebrities that were shown, I was more familiar with a few of the transgender celebrities, such as Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox. Therefore, when their pictures were shown, I was very quickly able to identify them as transgender because I knew them before going into the test. I didn’t know all of the transgender celebrities, but I knew more than I did the cisgender celebrities that were on this test. I would be curious to see the results if I knew more of the celebrities, or all of them. I think that part of this test is testing your reaction time as well, and not necessarily your bias towards one group or another.
Critical Thinking
That’s really interesting that your results weren’t what you would have anticipated. I also wasn’t sure how much to trust the test, not necessarily because of my results, though. I felt like I was really prone to accidentally clicking the buttons not out of making a wrong guess but almost like it was from the anticipation of answering the question made me nervous and I flinched. But still, it told me I was biased and to some degree I believe it.
I do wonder how accurate these tests are. As Grace mentioned in her comment, I clicked buttons accidentally for trying to go too fast or getting confused which letter was for which one. While the results did seem accurate for me, I find it interesting that yours didn’t seem accurate to you.